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Just because the Fed is staying put doesn’t mean that mortgage rates, and prices of MBS, are staying put as well, writes Vice Capital Markets Principal Chris Bennett.

The Federal Reserve warned of significant risks of business bankruptcies and steep drops in commercial real estate prices in a report published on Friday.

Blake Christian (pictured) is a CPA in the Park City Office of Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP (HCVT), a top 30 CPA firm. Joseph B. Darby III is a tax attorney and founder of Boston-based Joseph Darby Law PC. Both focus on opportunity zone funds and complex tax issues. They can be reached at blake.christian@hcvt.com or (562) 305-8050 and jay@josephdarbylaw.com or (617) 286-6553.

Chris Bennett is the principal of the mortgage industry hedge advisory firm Vice Capital Markets.

Mark Kowalsky is a partner at business law firm Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, P.C. in Southfield, Michigan. He leads the Firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group, and works closely with the Securities Litigation & Enforcement Defense practice group.

Moratorium extensions helped drive a weekly increase in forbearances, according to Black Knight.

“Sales could be even higher,” if more homes were put on the market, NAR’s chief economist Lawrence Yun said

Richard Barker is professor of accounting and associate dean of faculty at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

With historic barriers of systemic discrimination, predatory lending and wealth inequities to overcome, change will take time, but leaders from National Association of Real Estate Brokers and other groups propose lenders take these steps now.

Today, the mortgage players who most actively hedged — Fannie and Freddie, real estate investment trusts and large bank servicers — have significantly reduced their need to to do so, analysts said.